rancid
adjective
having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils.
rancidly
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a word derived from
rancid.
Example Sentences
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With each passing episode, it grows clearer that their profession was chosen to lend a touch of realism to the rancidly malicious, aggressively dimwitted dialogue screamed across long tables.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
Photograph: Bob Peterson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images In their own individual, rancidly sardonic way these novels of which I speak are always funny.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
There are likable performances from Brendan Cull as the naive hero, Sophia Thierens as the sweet-natured Sanddy and David Burt as their rancidly corrupt director.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2010
He alternates appalling melodrama with grisly farce, is now a kind of rancidly self-communing Hamlet, now Venus in a gold wig.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are lusciously oily, but never rancidly so.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
